Garden

While it seems like people I know in CA are already harvesting their gardens, we're just getting started here in Portland. Since we've spent the last 3 summers moving, we're celebrating this summer of not moving by planting a garden. Our neighbor made us this little box and the kids and I planted this week. I let Allie and Luke help decided what we were going to plant. They were super excited about planting corn even though I don't think it will do well. We still need to plant some rosemary--Luke REALLY wanted rosemary for some reason.

Luke learned all about worms in school so he and Allie collected quite a few worm for the garden as well. And Kate did a pretty good job of keeping most of the dirt in the box!

Working

The other day, this is what Kate was doing. I tried to ask her something, and she said, "Not right now, I'm busy! I'm working!"

A New Do

Allie has been growing her hair long and decided to donate it Locks of Love--a company that makes wigs for children with cancer. She finally couldn't stand it any longer so we went after school and got her hair cut. Her new short cut looks really cute and is much easier to take care of.

Father Sons Campout

The boys went camping last weekend. This is the only picture I have of the campers--they were having too much fun to take pictures. When Luke saw that Mike was wearing his Boston cap, he ran upstairs to get his too. So cute!

Per tradition, once the boys left town the girls went out to dinner. We walked over to McMenamins for their amazing tater tots and and a great salad. Then we built Legos for a bit before we put Kate to bed and stayed up late watching Harry Potter.

Individual

One thing I love about Luke is that he likes to do things his own way. Whenever he brings home a project from school, instead of telling me what the project was, he tells me how he did it differently from everyone else. He is so funny! This was the tablecloth at a volunteer-thank-you event at the school. I didn't even have to look at the names to know which rock was Luke's.

Get out of Jail Free

My grandma always give the kids savings bonds for their birthdays which is pretty cool. The kids love them and think saving money is awesome. A friend was over and asked Allie what the savings bond was and I overheard her tell her, "Well, it's worth some money now, but later it will be worth more money. So I can use it to get out of jail or something like that when I'm older."

What??!??

Old Navy

We don't go very often, but Kate wants to do this everytime we go.